{"id":21762,"date":"2019-02-22T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2019-02-22T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:04:48","slug":"funding-deal-agreed-to-build-homes-on-londons-rooftops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21762","title":{"rendered":"Funding deal agreed to build homes on London&#8217;s rooftops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/London_UK-LocalGov_220219.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21763\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/London_UK-LocalGov_220219.png\" alt=\"cityscape\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Government has backed a project to build rooftop properties in London on the top of existing buildings and they will be part of a \u00a3500m project to build more than 11,000 affordable properties across the country&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: LocalGov website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>LocalGov writes:<\/p>\n<p>Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said strategic partnerships agreed by Homes England will give successful housing associations the freedom to spend money on the developments with the biggest impact. Homes will be built on London rooftops in a \u00a39m funding deal with Apex Airspace Developments. The new homes will help the Government towards its target of building 300,000 properties a year by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n<p>The properties \u2013 which will be built on five sites across the capital \u2013 are largely constructed off site before being winched on top of buildings&#8230; The first of the homes will be completed by the summer \u2013 and in total 78 rooftop homes will be built under the three-year deal\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Funding-deal-agreed-to-build-homes-on-Londons-rooftops\/46796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has backed a project to build rooftop properties in London on the top of existing buildings and they will be part of a \u00a3500m project to build more than 11,000 affordable properties across the country&#8230; image: LocalGov website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21764,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions\/21764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}